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This collection encompasses a rich variety of appoaches to the comples negotiations of southerners with change and motion, as reflected in the literature, history and culture of this very distinctive region. Contributiors from both sides of the Atlantic address inward journeys of literary pilgrims, shed new light on the history of the civil rights movement as well as its reflection in literature, analyze transactions from literature to film, trace religious peregrinations in both history and literature, and follow a number of literary authors and characters on their journeys through the South or on their forced or voluntary flight from it, in search of other places where they can find refuge or sow the seeds of new beginnings.